India to tour South Africa in December

The Indian cricket team will be touring South Africa at the end of this year. They are slated to play three Tests, seven One-day Internationals and two T20 matches in December.

The Indians will be taking on the number one ranked Test team playing the first longer-version game after a long time. This will be India's first Test series after the recent 4-0 whitewash of the Australians at home in March.

The Indian Cricket Board and Cricket South Africa were contemplating to accommodate one more Test in the schedule. However, things could not materialize as both boards decided to stick to ICC's Futures Tour Programme (FTP).

South Africa last played Tests in February and will meet Pakistan for two matches in the UAE before hosting India late in December.

The three possible venues for the Test series are most likely to be Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg or Centurion. Also, there is a possibility that the Boxing Day Test will be hosted in Durban after it was cancelled previous season because Cricket South Africa opted to play three festive T20s instead.

India had drawn their last Test series in South Africa 1-1 in 2010-11.